From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5E751381F3 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 2013 15:16:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B9B66E0856; Sun, 9 Jun 2013 15:16:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f178.google.com (mail-we0-f178.google.com [74.125.82.178]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 66482E080D for ; Sun, 9 Jun 2013 15:16:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f178.google.com with SMTP id u53so4126018wes.23 for ; Sun, 09 Jun 2013 08:16:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=QHBdv4EFC0TyW7zQBi3zpik77dgLg5gH4/S9BOAkUN0=; b=Gs1X1/Ye4zHB+NAnKfrYEQXL6o7SNaxE7pH9kx+MTBZYwrMPxTJSgL1sk2PULc46y+ t2H5kR2dmEF5MO0PdaIJIjk3JosODSNwqoLzZu15LgDwGZrNBKP+1QCD/DcBQzSucezx ya3ofhJVvw7SBRXTWHdnpJm0FnQJrV8rrsh6x/NPsP2mYf8cx8vIAqrgB2LOqBMUbsYm qEByEjxdObb/X+GFvV8ebDlhBz1l590/WCZmNqMnDTiMXEjyEsBWpYEsl5NGnxLu0jOO +VatYct+180xdD8GRB5byB8TgeDb9wsnM3RDBsZyFOlr69j8NdjkatRynHmV5WZkLg/5 j2AQ== X-Received: by 10.194.6.37 with SMTP id x5mr3507991wjx.35.1370790967013; Sun, 09 Jun 2013 08:16:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (196-210-127-214.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.127.214]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id r9sm6737631wik.1.2013.06.09.08.16.05 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 09 Jun 2013 08:16:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <51B49BF1.3030900@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2013 17:14:57 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130518 Thunderbird/17.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Help running fsck on reiserfs lvm /var on production server? References: <51B3A409.7050701@libertytrek.org> <51B432A3.9090903@gmail.com> <51B4948A.9080108@libertytrek.org> In-Reply-To: <51B4948A.9080108@libertytrek.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4dba7ca8-4f76-40e8-b588-323eaca6c057 X-Archives-Hash: 8614e6804fbe0ef28af5920d067d05a9 On 09/06/2013 16:43, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-06-09 3:45 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> I'm not convinced a power outage broke the fs so that you now can't >> umount it, I'm having a hard time imaging how that would happen. More >> likely some other script file elsewhere is damaged and leaves files open >> when the system wants to umount /var. > > Hmmm.... > > Admittedly, I don't reboot this system often, so maybe I'm > misremembering when the problem crept in. > > Could it be the NFS mount that it is hanging on, and unmounting/var is > just that last thing showing on the screen? > > I think I'll try manually unmounting that before rebooting the next time > I need to(need to update the kernel soon anyway)... > > I do know the last few times this has happened, the NFS mount was > 'unavailable' (the device had powered down without first unmounting it > from the server)... > > I hope that is all it is... Ugh, NFS complicates things :-) I have a similar thing with my notebook and NFS mounts at home, I often forget to umount the NFS dirs, causing issues when I then go to work and wake the machine up If you have NFS in the mix, I'd certainly investigate that first before getting into more complex things. Also check that your NFS and mount stuff in /etc/init.d are doing the right thing in the right order with both startup and shutdown -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com